Tag: Cloud and infrastructure
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Write queries faster with Amazon Q generative SQL for Amazon Redshift
Posted on November 27, 2024, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, AI-powered cloud data warehouse that delivers the best price-performance for your analytics workloads at any scale. Amazon Q generative SQL brings the capabilities of generative AI directly into the Amazon Redshift query editor. Amazon Q generative SQL for Amazon Redshift was launched in preview during AWS re:Invent 2023. With over 85,000 queries executed in preview, Amazon Redshift announced the general availability in September 2024. By Raghu Kuppala, Phil Bates, Xiao Qin, Erol Murtezaoglu, and Sushmita Barthakur.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure data-and-analytics backend-development
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How AI surged Google Cloud's revenue growth
Posted on November 21, 2024, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Google Cloud's revenue growth driven by AI capabilities, outpaces expectations and positions it amongst AWS and Microsoft Azure in global cloud evolution. By Kitty Wheeler.
Tags leadership-and-career ai-and-machine-learning cloud-and-infrastructure software-engineering
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Democratizing AI accelerators and GPU kernel programming using Triton
Posted on November 18, 2024, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Triton is a language and compiler for parallel programming. Specifically it is currently a Python-based DSL (Domain Specific Language) along with associated tooling, that enables the writing of efficient custom compute kernels used for implementing DNNs (Deep Neural Networks) and LLMs (Large Language Models), especially when executed on AI accelerators such as GP. By Sanjeev Rampal.
Tags ai-and-machine-learning cloud-and-infrastructure devops-and-ci-cd software-engineering miscellaneous
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Laying the foundation for a career in platform engineering
Posted on November 15, 2024, Level beginner Resource Length long
Imagine that you're an engineer at the company Acme Corp and you've been tasked with some big projects: integrating and delivering software using CI/CD and automation, as well as implementing data-driven metrics and observability tools. But many of your fellow engineers are struggling because there's too much cognitive load — think deploying and automating Kubernetes clusters, configuring CI/CD pipelines, and worrying about security. By Darren Evans and Yuriy Babenko.
Tags leadership-and-career cloud-and-infrastructure devops-and-ci-cd
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How to use GPT to analyze large datasets
Posted on October 30, 2024, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Absorbing and then summarizing very large quantities of content in just a few seconds truly is a big deal. As an example, a while back I received a link to the recording of an important 90 minute business video conference that I'd missed a few hours before. By David Clinton.
Tags data-and-analytics ai-and-machine-learning architecture-and-apis cloud-and-infrastructure
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Gmail rolling out Gemini-powered contextual smart replies
Posted on October 26, 2024, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Following the announcement at I/O 2024, Google is now rolling out Contextual Smart Replies to Gmail for Android and iOS. Compared to Smart Reply, which dates back to 2017, the contextual version is "meant for detailed responses." Gemini "can analyze the context of an email" and suggest replies that are "tailored to your conversation." By Abner Li.
Tags miscellaneous cloud-and-infrastructure architecture-and-apis ai-and-machine-learning
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Advantages and disadvantages of distributed systems
Posted on October 4, 2024, Level beginner Resource Length short
Distributed systems offer numerous benefits such as scalability and fault tolerance but also present challenges like complexity and data consistency. This article explores both the advantages and disadvantages of distributed systems, providing insights into their impact on modern computing environments. By geeksforgeeks.org.
Tags architecture-and-apis cloud-and-infrastructure
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8 essential Android 15 security features you should set up immediately
Posted on October 1, 2024, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Google has released Android 15, which includes several significant security enhancements. These updates focus on privacy and theft protection, such as Private space, which allows users to create a separate, secure area on their device for sensitive data and apps1. Additionally, theft protection features include automatic device locking if theft is detected and preventing factory resets without authentication. By Parth Shah.
Tags frontend-and-mobile leadership-and-career product-and-design security-and-privacy cloud-and-infrastructure
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Oracle lauds customers and cloud collaboration at CloudWorld '24
Posted on September 16, 2024, Level beginner Resource Length short
The Memorystore team is thrilled to announce the preview launch of Valkey 7.2 support on Memorystore to provide users with a truly open-source and high performance key-value service. The introduction of Memorystore for Valkey into the Memorystore portfolio alongside Memorystore for Redis Cluster and Memorystore for Redis is a direct response to customer demand, and is a game-changer for organizations seeking high-performance data management solutions relying on 100% open source software. By Kyle Meggs, Ping Xie.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure architecture-and-apis leadership-and-career
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5 ways to improve serverless performance
Posted on September 13, 2024, Level beginner Resource Length medium
An insightful webinar as we explore strategies for optimizing AWS Lambda performance. In this session, Yan Cui, AWS Serverless Hero, and Aviad Mor, Co-founder and CTO of Lumigo, will discuss three approaches that can significantly enhance the efficiency and scalability of your serverless applications. By Aviad Mor and Yan Cui.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure software-engineering architecture-and-apis devops-and-ci-cd
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Google Cloud launches Memorystore for Valkey
Posted on September 10, 2024, Level beginner Resource Length medium
The Memorystore team is thrilled to announce the preview launch of Valkey 7.2 support on Memorystore to provide users with a truly open-source and high performance key-value service. The introduction of Memorystore for Valkey into the Memorystore portfolio alongside Memorystore for Redis Cluster and Memorystore for Redis is a direct response to customer demand, and is a game-changer for organizations seeking high-performance data management solutions relying on 100% open source software. By Kyle Meggs, Ping Xie.
Tags data-and-analytics architecture-and-apis cloud-and-infrastructure
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Serverless use cases: How enterprises are using the technology to let developers innovate
Posted on September 7, 2024, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Serverless, or serverless computing, is an approach to software development that empowers developers to build and run application code without having to worry about maintenance tasks like installing software updates, security, monitoring and more. With the rise of cloud computing, serverless has become a popular tool for organizations looking to give developers more time to write and deploy code. By Mesh Flinders.
Tags security-and-privacy architecture-and-apis cloud-and-infrastructure